Recently I have been learning about Hibernate since it has become so popular. Hibernate provides object persistence, which is Object Relational Mapping (ORM); specifically from Java to a RDBMS.
I went through the tutorial at Master the Boss (reference to JBoss) here [http://www.mastertheboss.com/quickstart-tutorials-hibernate/jpa/hibernate-tutorial-with-eclipse], but as I went through it, I noticed quite a few problems. This tutorial is quite old and certainly needs updating. Notice the MySQL grant command has changed; It should now be [grant all privileges on *.* TO ‘hibernate’@’localhost’;]. Logging should use the “jboss-logging-3.1.0.GA.jar” file.
There are other things that need to be fixed in order to compile and deploy the application; however, that should be straight forward for most people familiar with Java.
Alvin Bunk 